On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:28:59PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:>...> > BTW: Is all what ACPI does really required, if all I need ACPI for is> > to turn the power off after halting my computer?> > On this system ACPI is required to configure the IOAPIC.> > It may be possible to save power in idle with c-states> and at run-time with p-states (cpufreq) on this box,> but I couldn't tell that from the dmesg if CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR> was included or not.

It's not.

> If you don't care about interrupt performance and you don't> mind pressing the power button when you halt the system,> go ahead and run with CONFIG_ACPI=n.

Not needed "pressing the power button when you halt the system" is the "killer application" for using ACPI for me...

> cheers,> -Len

cuAdrian

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